I also work in research on clinical methods and have work published in research journals from time to time. This is one of those times.

Patrick Smith was recently a guest on The Empirical Cycling Podcast. Read on for more details and link to the show.

Patrick Smith was recently a guest on The Empirical Cycling Podcast. Read on for more details and link to the show.

In collaboration with an international team of researchers and sport psychologists, we are attempting to address a service gap in accessing mental health services. This is a call for participants and individuals interested in helping us recruit participants via introductions.

Acceptance and Commitment Training builds the skill of distinguishing between the self-as-content (Self-stories), the self-as-process (Self-Story-Teller), and self-as-context (Where the story is told). Athletes and coaches can hook on the story as identity with catastrophic outcomes. I talk about how to notice the stories we tell ourselves so we can effectively navigate identity disrupting experiences such as injury or loss.

Mindfulness is becoming so ubiquitous it can be challenging to separate what the skill is and how to use it to an athlete’s advantage from the stereotypes of culturally appropriating hipsters and crunchy consumerism. Here are some trainable skills to build active and flexible attention in order to more easily induce broad present moment awareness experiences such as flow state.

Athletes experience anxiety more frequently than most. Here are some tools for coaches to work with their athletes during challenging experiences.

I also work in research on clinical methods and have work published in research journals from time to time. This is one of those times.

Data is noisy and, as a coach, you need to be able to sort through the noise to give athletes actionable direction. In this conversation we discuss some basics to understand about statistics and how it is useful, but not hard and fast law when it comes to how you coach your clients.

This post is a companion piece to an education article appearing in the January-February 2019 Professional Skate Magazine entitled “Behavior Analysis for Popped Jumps.” We build off that article and go deeper on form versus function and fading techniques.

A starter for a longer discussion and research on how to adapt Muscle Oxygen Saturation(SmO2) data into a more useful training metric that may, one day, compliment or replace wattage.

Exercise must be hard is a fallacy that sells products but hurts athletes.  We dive into when effort is productive and when it is destructive.